Ilídio Tomás Lopes

1- Interpret the importance and usefulness of financial statements for the various stakeholders;
2 - Recognize the impact of the main transactions on the different cycles of operations.
3 - Differentiate the main corporate governance models and the importance of internal and external control mechanisms.

1. The Accounting Standardization System
- Framework;
- Qualitative characteristics of the information;
- Purpose and structure of the financial statements;
- Other fundamental concepts.
2. The impact of transactions on cycles of operations
- Operational cycle;
- Investment cycle;
- financing cycle.
3. Corporate Governance and Control
- Corporate governance models;
- Internal control;
- Legal certification of accounts;
- Integrated accounting reporting.

The process of assessment in this curricular unit covers the following methods:
1) Assessment throughout the semester;
2) Assessment by exam.
The assessment method mentioned in 1) includes a Mid-term test (with a weighting of 40% in the final grade) and a Final Teste (with a 60% weighting in the final grade). The minimum mark in each of the mentioned tests is 7.5 points (in a 20 points scale).
In case of "Assessment by exam", it occurs excusively during the assessment period and covers all the material taught in the curricular unit, with a weighting of 100% in the final grade.

Luís Fernando Pimentel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Abreu

Luís Guilherme Carvalho de Pina Catarino

1 - Understand and master the process of creating a commercial company.
2 - Understand the meaning and main attributes of the legal personality of the corporation.
3 - Identify and understand the scope of the rights and obligations of the partner.
4 - Identify the organizational structures of a company and understand its operation.
5 - Understand and apply the rules concerning the preparation and accountability, as well as those relating to the application of results.
6 - Understand the legal regime of the limited company and be able to draw up the main documents relating to its constitution and functioning.
7- Understand the legal regime of the joint stock company.
8- Learn the fundamentals of capital markets, securities and other financial instruments.

I- The constitution of the company.
II- The corporate personality.
III-The contract of membership.
IV-The organs of the company.
V- The approval of the accounts and the application of the results. The
preservation of the capital.
VI- Private limited companies by shares.
VII- Joint stock company.
VIII- Capital markets, securities and other financial instruments.

Assessment throughout the semester:
1- Written examination, which contributes 60% towards the final grade.
2- Group work, on one of the themes of the Programm, to be be first presented orally and later in writing and that contributes 40% to the final grade.
3- If the student prepares and presents a case in class, the following will apply: presentation of the case (20%), group work (30%) and written examination (50%).
4- Students must obtain at least 8 at the exam and group work.
5- Attendance of classes is mandatory.
Students may choose to be evaluated only by a final exam.

Maria Luísa Teixeira Alves

1. Improve and deepen theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of individual labor law (to carry on in Labor law II).
2. Being able to deal with concrete issues of individual labor law taking into account the specific context of organizations and the basic needs of their management.
3. Acquiring methods and routines to access and review the most relevant case law.

I. WORK CONTRACTING
1. The legal catalog. The variants of the employment contract. Some application questions.
2. The legal framework for recruitment. Freedom of recruitment and legal selection parameters.
3. The contractual qualification. Definition and determination of the employment contract. Labor presumptions.
4. Fixed-term employment and temporary work.
5. Teleworking.

II. EXECUTION OF WORK
6. Fundamental rights at work.
7. Functional flexibility - Contracted activity and variation rights
8. Geographic flexibility. The workplace, transfers and geographic mobility clauses.
9. Organization of working times: Duration and work schedules.
10. Flexible working time figures.
11. Vacations, holidays and absences.
12. Fixed, variable and mixed remuneration and supplementary benefits.

Students can choose between the following assessment methods:
a) Normal season - Assessmente throught the semester, which includes the following components: attendance and participation; preparation of class reports; resolution of an interim test; final written exam.
b) Appeal Períod.
The final evaluation classification throught the semester (paragraf a)) is found by applying the following coefficients: attendance and participation: 15% of the final grade; preparation of class reports: 15% of the final grade: Interim test: 20% of the final grade; final written exam: 50% of the final grade and a minimum grade equal to or graeter than 8 points.
Students pass the UC if they obtain a final grade greater than or equal to 10 points.

Appeal Períod:
Students who did not present themselves or did not pass in the 1st Period;
Students who intend to improve their grade.

Francisco José Nicolau Domingos

1. To provide master's students with a detailed overview of company tax law, with a particular focus on the taxation of business activity, essentially materialised in the study of corporate income tax.
2. Establish a theoretical and application link with the international tax system, from the perspective of business activity.
To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to pass on theoretical knowledge so that it can then be applied to solving practical cases. At the same time, reading (and analysing) scientific papers and case law will help to consolidate knowledge of corporate income taxation and its links with the international tax system.

I - Taxation and companies
II - Corporate income tax
III - Corporate taxation under IRS
IV - VAT taxation

Assessment throughout the semester:


- Participation (quality, relevance and frequency) of students in class (weighting of 20% in the final grade) and a written test (weighting of 80% in the final grade). Students are required to attend 2/3 of the classes.

- Alternatively, students can complete a written test (weighting 80% of the final grade) and a scientific initiation article on any of the syllabuses (weighting 20% of the final grade).
If the final mark is less than 9.5, the student will fail the course. As an alternative to assessment throughout the semester, students may take an exam (which may take place in the 1st term).

Ruben Bahamonde Delgado

Each student should acquire skills that allow him to investigate, organize documentation, ideas and writing, in order to conclude the Dissertation in Business Law or Labor Law, as the final work of the Master's Programm.

I. Fundamentals about doing research in law.
II. Techniques of reading and writing legal texts.
III. The definition of a research question.
IV. Methodology.
V. How to plan the investigation.
VI. Research of books and of judicial decisions.
VII. Data bases.
VIII. The use of artificial intelligence.
IX. Ethics in investigation.
X. Analysis of some dissertations.

The evaluation of students will be based on a written report about a Master's in Law dissertation.

Vitor Hugo Ferreira da Silva

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

LO1 - Identify the essential elements of a negotiation;
LO2 - Describe and analyze the process of conducting a negotiation in a dyad, as interdependent decision-making;
LO3 - Identify the differences between integrative and distributive negotiating situations, and know how to approach them strategically;
LO4 - Know the specificities of multilateral negotiations and use an integrated process for planning and conducting negotiations in groups and between teams;
LO5 - Know the impact of information technologies on the negotiation process.

PC1 - The study of negotiation as a multidisciplinary phenomenon;
PC2 - Conceptions of negotiation: lay and scientific;
PC3 - Negotiation: a response to the consequences of diversity in organizations;
PC4 - The negotiation process as an effective means of resolving organizational conflicts;
PC5 - Integrative negotiation and distributive negotiation: strategies and tactics;
PC6 - Rationality and cognition in negotiation: heuristics and biases in individual decision-making and impact on negotiation processes;
PC7 - Interpersonal relationships and emotions in negotiation;
PC8 - Teams and groups in negotiation: specific processes of multilateral negotiations and steps in the preparation and approach of a negotiation between teams:
PC9 - e-Negotiation: brief introduction to the problems of negotiation mediated by information technology.

1 - Assessment throughout the semester
Access to this form of assessment requires the student to ensure attendance of 80% or more and a minimum mark of 7.5 in each of the assessment instruments. It includes:

a) Written test (50% of the final grade)
b) Individual written review (20% of the final grade)
c) Group work according to a structured script (30% of the final grade)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the teaching-learning process is seen as both an opportunity and a challenge. If, on the one hand, it makes it faster to find solutions, easier to unblock doubts and reduces research time, on the other, it limits a critical approach to the use of information and the construction of knowledge, does not identify sources, is not validated by peers and reduces the development of critical thinking.

This course will allow the use of AI tools with the following objectives in mind: Research into general theoretical constructs, concepts and definitions that allow students to frame their research and critical reflection on the subjects under analysis.

In this sense, whenever the assessment elements submitted have resorted to the use of AI tools, students must ensure compliance with the rules of referencing and academic integrity laid down in the law and regulations. Whenever necessary, by decision of the teacher and as an element of prevention of any type of plagiarism and/or academic fraud, oral tests may be requested which, confirming the occurrence of improper and unreferenced use of AI tools, will result in the annulment of the assessment element under analysis.


2 - Assessment by examination (Article 10 of the RGACC)
Students who opt for this assessment method, as well as those who have not passed the Assessment method during the semester, will take an exam that includes a written test covering all the content taught in the course (100% of the final grade).

Luís Fernando Pimentel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Abreu

Luís Guilherme Carvalho de Pina Catarino

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to interpret and apply Portuguese Company Law, as well as the law applicable to the Capital Market.

I - The basic governance structure of the company.
II - The board of directors and the business judgement rule.
III - Decisions.
IV - Fundamental corporate changes.
V - Capital.
VI - Groups of companies.
VII - Market control and transferable securities.

Assessment throughout the semester: Group work - 40%. Test - 60%. OR Individual presentation of a case - 20%. Group work - 30%. Test - 50%. If the final mark, without considering the individual presentation, is higher, then it prevails. Students may choose to be evaluated by a final exam only, but that is not recommended. Attendance of classes is mandatory, as well as obtaining a minimum note of 8 in the Test and the Group work.

João Pedro de Sousa Assis

The objective of the present C.U. is to:
a) enable students to identify, contextualise and apply the principles and rules relating to the institute of insolvency in a business context;
b) Enable students to identify the various ways in which a business organisation enters into insolvency, or into imminent insolvency, while promoting understanding on the tools available for recuperating such business organisations;
c) Demonstrate to students the procedure leading to the extinction and liquidation of the business organisation, in order to protect the economy at large and the market;
d) promote critical understanding of the symbiosis between the Commercial Companies Code and the Civil Procedure Code, in particular, with regard to the exercise of social rights.

1. Insolvency, from an economic and a legal perspective;
2. Concepts, evolution of the institute and its subjects;
3. Legal mechanisms applicable to the recovering of business organisations;
4. Hybrid business organisations' recovery mechanisms;
5. Extrajudicial business organisations' recovery mechanisms;
6. Protection of the economy, dissolution of the business organisation and liquidation of its assets;
7. The symbiotic relationship between substantive corporate law and civil proceedings;
8. Corporate acts and specific procedural issues arising therefrom, progress of the court proceedings and appeals.

Assessment throughout the semester:
Assessment throughout the semester consists in the following elements: (i) learning diary: 10%; (ii) bibliographic report with oral presentation in class: 30%; (iii) individual written assessment: 60%. To pass in the C.U., a minimum overall average of 10 points is required, with a minimum of 8 points in each element, on a scale of 20 points.

Assessment by exam:
Assessment by exam consists of a written test, and covers all subjects taught in class. Students who have not passed the assessment throughout the semester are admitted to the exam. To pass in the C.U., a minimum score of 10 points is required, on a scale of 20 points.

João Francisco Baptista Colaço Sobral do Rosário

- Know the methodologies, techniques and assessment models relevant to business investment decisions, with a predominance in the medium and long term;
- Know the main sources of financing for organizations (equity and equity) and the effect of indebtedness on taxes and results;
- Obtain analytical and decision-making skills in areas of activity such as the investment and financing process, the interaction between these decisions, and strategic financial planning.

I Introduction to the study of Finance
- Objectives in the study of Finance
- Financial decisions of companies

II The time value of money
- Financial assumption of time value of money
- Simple interest and compound interest
- Concepts of Future Value and Current Value
- Capitalization and present value techniques
- Net Present Value

III Analysis of the Investment Decision
- Concept and type of investments
- Evaluation methodology
- Definition of "cash flows"
- Investment appraisal criteria
- Analysis of uncertainty and sensitivity

IV Analysis of the Financing Decision
- Medium and long term financing
- The debt service map
- The selection of funding sources

There are two evaluation periods, in this learning unit:

(1) During the leaning-teaching term, will have a weight of 30% in the final grade, and will be used the following evaluation instruments: assignments; lecture participation and intervention.
This grade presupposes a student's attendancy (and punctuality) equal or above 80%.

(2) The final valuation (examination) will have a weight of 70%.

1. The student must be able to identify and analyze the main antitrust law violations as well as the main industrial property rights.
2. The student must be able to foresee the possibility of the antitrust law application related to company behavior in the market.
3. The student must be able to interconnect the different elements relevant for the application of antitrust law in order to prevent antitrust law infringements.
4. The student must be able to identify the company assets capable of being protected by industrial property to enhance its value.
5. The student must be able to understand de limits and characteristics of the different industrial property typologies in order to enhance its optimization and to prevent the violation of third parties rights.
6. The student must be able to understand de relevance of antitrust law and industrial property in the field of developing commercial strategies aided by an efficient juridical advice.

Competition.
1.Market economics and free competition, European and national competition landscape.
2.Competition law
2.1The prohibition of collusive practices. (cases)
2.2The prohibition of the abuse of dominant position. (cases)
2.3 Mergers. (cases)
2.4 State aid. (cases)
3. The antitrust agencies: European decentralisation and judicial entities.
Intellectual Property.
4. Intellectual property: copy right and industrial property.
5. Industrial property, generic features.
5.1 Patents.
5.2 Utility Models.
5.3 Trademarks.
5.4 Logotypes.
5.5 Designs and models.
6. The protection and management of intellectual property rights.

Students who are present in 80 % of classes are considered in continuous assessment, in which the various elements of assessment used therein will contribute 40 % of the final grade; the remaining 60 % will be obtained in a final written exam. The continuous assessment elements are explained by the teacher at the beginning of the semester.
For students not approved or for those who want to improve their grades, there will be a written exam a second time at the end of the semester in which the course is taught.

Mário Silveiro de Barros

The student must be able to understand the procedural phases of any judicial process within the scope of labor law, including the procedural legal issues related to these proceedings.

I - JURISDICTIONAL LABOR SYSTEM
II - PROCEDURE ON LABOR LAW
III - PROCEEDINGS' TYPES AND FORMS
IV - ORDINARY PROCEEDING
V - SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS AT CPT (CODE FOR LABOR PROCEDURE)
VI - OTHER PROCEEDINGS WITH LABOR NATURE

Assessment throughout the semester
All students in the 1st term will be admitted to an assessment throught the semestre, which comprises the following elements: 1) mini-test(s)/written work(s) rendered during the academic period, which will contribute 45% for the final grade; and 2) Final exam, which will contribute 55% for the final grade.
Approval: the approval requires a minimum classification of 10 grade in weighting the two factors (Grade: 0-20);
2nd term: final individual exam (100%) with a minimum classification of 10 grade (Grade: 0-20)

Luís Fernando Pimentel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Abreu

The student should be able to analyze and apply the major commercial contracts. He/she must be able to solve the juridical problems that arise in business deals.

1. Commercial contracts in general.
2. The formation of the contract and the pre-contractual liability.
3. Banking contracts.
4. Insurance contracts.
5. The contract of sale, including the international sale of goods.
6. Factoring.
7. Agency contract and Contract for commercial distribution.
8. Franchise.

Assessment throughout the semester: paper first to be presented in class and later submitted in writing by groups of not more than four or five students (50%) and test (50%).
Students may choose to be evaluated by a final exam.

Maria Luísa Teixeira Alves

1. Be able to interpret and apply correctly legal norms, as well as solving pratical cases regarding termination of the employment contract.
2. Be able to interpret and apply correctly legal norms in the area of industrial relations in the framework of collective rights.
4. Be able to interpret and apply to practical situations legal rules on trade union activities, bargaining and industrial conflicts, in particular, strikes and lock-out.

I. Employment Contract Termination
1. The general framework of the modalities for terminitaion of the employment contract
2. Expiry, revocation, resolution and denunciation
3. General dismissal
4. Individual dismissal
5. Colecttive dismissal.

II. Collective Labor Law
6. Fundamental collective rights.
7. Collective Persons and freedom of association.
8. Collective bargaining.
9. Prevention and pacific resolution of collective labor disputes.
10. Strike and lock-out.

The evaluation process in DTII can be based on:
a) Assessment troughout the semester or b) only Final Exam.
In the process referred to in a), the classification of the assessment troughtout the semester includes
- Attendance and participation in classes, including report - 20% in the final note;
- Mid-term mini-test - 20% in the final note;
-Final exam - 60% in the final note.
In the process mentioned in b) the written exam will have a coefficient of 100%.

The student must be able to understand the procedural phases of any judicial process within the scope of labor law, including the procedural legal issues related to these proceedings.

I - JURISDICTIONAL LABOR SYSTEM
II - PROCEDURE ON LABOR LAW
III - PROCEEDINGS' TYPES AND FORMS
IV - ORDINARY PROCEEDING
V - SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS AT CPT (CODE FOR LABOR PROCEDURE)
VI - OTHER PROCEEDINGS WITH LABOR NATURE

Assessment throughout the semester
All students in the 1st term will be admitted to an assessment throught the semestre, which comprises the following elements: 1) mini-test(s)/written work(s) rendered during the academic period, which will contribute 45% for the final grade; and 2) Final exam, which will contribute 55% for the final grade.
Approval: the approval requires a minimum classification of 10 grade in weighting the two factors (Grade: 0-20);
2nd term: final individual exam (100%) with a minimum classification of 10 grade (Grade: 0-20)

1. Be able to interpret and apply correctly legal norms, as well as solving pratical cases regarding termination of the employment contract.
2. Be able to interpret and apply correctly legal norms in the area of industrial relations in the framework of collective rights.
4. Be able to interpret and apply to practical situations legal rules on trade union activities, bargaining and industrial conflicts, in particular, strikes and lock-out.

I. Employment Contract Termination
1. The general framework of the modalities for terminitaion of the employment contract
2. Expiry, revocation, resolution and denunciation
3. General dismissal
4. Individual dismissal
5. Colecttive dismissal.

II. Collective Labor Law
6. Fundamental collective rights.
7. Collective Persons and freedom of association.
8. Collective bargaining.
9. Prevention and pacific resolution of collective labor disputes.
10. Strike and lock-out.

The evaluation process in DTII can be based on:
a) Assessment troughout the semester or b) only Final Exam.
In the process referred to in a), the classification of the assessment troughtout the semester includes
- Attendance and participation in classes, including report - 20% in the final note;
- Mid-term mini-test - 20% in the final note;
-Final exam - 60% in the final note.
In the process mentioned in b) the written exam will have a coefficient of 100%.

The objective of the present C.U. is to:
a) enable students to identify, contextualise and apply the principles and rules relating to the institute of insolvency in a business context;
b) Enable students to identify the various ways in which a business organisation enters into insolvency, or into imminent insolvency, while promoting understanding on the tools available for recuperating such business organisations;
c) Demonstrate to students the procedure leading to the extinction and liquidation of the business organisation, in order to protect the economy at large and the market;
d) promote critical understanding of the symbiosis between the Commercial Companies Code and the Civil Procedure Code, in particular, with regard to the exercise of social rights.

1. Insolvency, from an economic and a legal perspective;
2. Concepts, evolution of the institute and its subjects;
3. Legal mechanisms applicable to the recovering of business organisations;
4. Hybrid business organisations' recovery mechanisms;
5. Extrajudicial business organisations' recovery mechanisms;
6. Protection of the economy, dissolution of the business organisation and liquidation of its assets;
7. The symbiotic relationship between substantive corporate law and civil proceedings;
8. Corporate acts and specific procedural issues arising therefrom, progress of the court proceedings and appeals.

Assessment throughout the semester:
Assessment throughout the semester consists in the following elements: (i) learning diary: 10%; (ii) bibliographic report with oral presentation in class: 30%; (iii) individual written assessment: 60%. To pass in the C.U., a minimum overall average of 10 points is required, with a minimum of 8 points in each element, on a scale of 20 points.

Assessment by exam:
Assessment by exam consists of a written test, and covers all subjects taught in class. Students who have not passed the assessment throughout the semester are admitted to the exam. To pass in the C.U., a minimum score of 10 points is required, on a scale of 20 points.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to interpret and apply Portuguese Company Law, as well as the law applicable to the Capital Market.

I - The basic governance structure of the company.
II - The board of directors and the business judgement rule.
III - Decisions.
IV - Fundamental corporate changes.
V - Capital.
VI - Groups of companies.
VII - Market control and transferable securities.

Assessment throughout the semester: Group work - 40%. Test - 60%. OR Individual presentation of a case - 20%. Group work - 30%. Test - 50%. If the final mark, without considering the individual presentation, is higher, then it prevails. Students may choose to be evaluated by a final exam only, but that is not recommended. Attendance of classes is mandatory, as well as obtaining a minimum note of 8 in the Test and the Group work.

Luís Fernando Pimentel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Abreu

Maria Luísa Teixeira Alves

Iván Vizcaíno Ramos

Pablo Ignacio Fernández Carballo-Calero

Develop research and writing skills in law.

Acquire specific knowledge in topics of Business law, including on a comparative perspective, namely concerning Spanish law.

1- Presentation of several topics of Business law by the teachers.
2- Information on how to prepare and write a dissertation.
3- Presentation of the subject of their dissertation by the students or of a paper on a subject studied in the Course (80%), as well as a short text regarding one of the contents of the classes given by foreign teachers (20%).

The evaluation is based exclusively on a written report to be presented by the student according to the Programm.

Luís Fernando Pimentel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Abreu

Maria Luísa Teixeira Alves

In order to successfully complete this subject, the student should be able to:
1.Identify, select and examine theoretical references for the topic to be studied.
2.Identify and design a research topic.
3.Establish an appropriate theoretical framework.
4.Write and present the research outcomes.
5.Discuss and develop arguments on strengthens and weaknesses of the research.

Given the nature of this unit, it is hardly possible to define programmatic contents with specific topics. Basically, the subject attempts the use of acquired skills in order to successfully complete the Master thesis. Accordingly, it focuses on some particular topics:
1.General structure of the Master thesis.
2.Writing the theoretical framework and research issues.
3.Link between theoretical framework and empirical analysis.
4.Discussion of findings and concluding remarks.
5.Preparation for public defence of the Master thesis.

Master dissertations must be discussed and defended publically. The goal is to assess student's technical, writing, presentation, and discussion skills.